Re: dont want @ base package to install???

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You can also specifically turn off packages (since maintaining a comps file is a pain between OS revs) through kickstart by putting a "-" in front of packages.

			- Matt

damien.clarke wrote:
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:24, Merritt Krakowitzer wrote:

Hi

I Have made a kickstart boot disk with the packages i want to install.
The problem is that kickstart automagically installs @ base. I dont want
this as i dont require a lot of the packages, I have specified the
packages i wanted manually.

How do i get kickstart not to install the @ base? I have considered
editing the comps.xml file but since I'm doing cdrom installs i dont
know how to get ks to read the ks config from the boot floppy.

Any help in this regard would be appreciated. Im considering just
putting a whole bunch of rpm -e package_name to the %post section.

thanks
Merritt

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replace yours comps xml with this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE comps PUBLIC "-//Red Hat, Inc.//DTD Comps info//EN"
"comps.dtd">

<comps>
<!--  <meta> -->
<!-- Meta information will go here eventually -->
<!--  </meta> -->

  <group>
    <id>base</id>
    <name>Base</name>
    <name xml:lang="cs">Základ</name>
    <name xml:lang="da">Base</name>
    <name xml:lang="de">Basis</name>
    <name xml:lang="es">Base</name>
    <name xml:lang="fr">Base</name>
    <name xml:lang="is">Grunnur</name>
    <name xml:lang="it">Base</name>
    <name xml:lang="ja">ベース</name>
    <name xml:lang="ko">기준</name>
    <name xml:lang="no">Grunnpakker</name>
    <name xml:lang="pt">Base</name>
    <name xml:lang="ru">Основа</name>
    <name xml:lang="sv">Bas</name>
    <name xml:lang="zh_CN">基本</name>
    <name xml:lang="zh_TW">基礎</name>
    <description></description>
    <uservisible>false</uservisible>
    <default>true</default>
    <grouplist>
     </grouplist>
    <packagelist>
      <packagereq type="default">anacron</packagereq>
    </packagelist>
  </group>

</comps>


Damien Clarke




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